On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:26 PM Milan JEANTON <m.jeanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I try to send you the message again, it says it couldn't be send because
> it was an HTML type message.
>
>
> I use nftables for a development project with our company and I'm happy
> with this application but I'm still learning a lot with all the options.
>
> I'm using Debian environments (stretch and buster).
>
> My problem is with the sets of nftables:
> I use the sets to manage a large amount of ip addresses since it store
> only the ipv4 addresses without any rules and process it much quicker.
>
> So let's say I have this table configuration:
>
> table ip test {
> set tmp {
> type ipv4_addr
> }
> }
>
> I can add elements in my set without any problem, I can also delete them
> one by one.
>
> The problem I have is that I need to delete all the elements in the tmp
> set and as precised in the manual of nftables I could flush the elements
> of a set:
>
> SETS
> [...]
> flush Remove all elements from the specified set.
>
> But when I use the command to flush my sets, it doesn't work and
> displays me an error message
>
> nft 'flush set test tmp'
> Error: Could not process rule: Invalid argument
> flush set test tmp
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
Hi, which kernel version are you running?
It works in my system.
Cheers.
> So I used an other method that worked on version 0.7 by selecting all
> the content of elements, but I updated to version 0.9.4 and can't make
> it work since there is a new line each two addresses and I would rather
> use a native command anyway.
>
> I don't understand what I do wrong ? If you can please help me.
>
> Regards,
